Sentences with phrase «in orbit around gas giants»

That said, the concept of the «habitable zone» may be a bit of a misnomer, as life may be able to emerge outside of this area, such as on moons in orbit around gas giants.

It gives further evidence of how Titan, despite its location in orbit around a gas giant in the outer Solar System, is one of the most Earth - like objects ever studied.

That's the latest result from Juno, a NASA spacecraft in orbit around the gas giant since 2016.

Not exact matches

We are a Goldie Loc's Planet 2 - we got the right of land to water ratio 3 - the moon is at the right size and orbit to prevent the earth from wobbling 4 - the gas giants in our solar system do a great job at cleaning up roaming ice and rock that is flying around our solar system 5 - right distance from the galactic core.

Our analysis strongly suggests we are observing a disk of hot gas that surrounds a forming giant planet in orbit around the star.

To date, all exoplanets discovered in orbit around double stars are gas giants, similar to Jupiter, and are thought to form in the icy regions of their systems.

According to a NASA announcement on Friday, «TESS will use an array of telescopes to perform an all - sky survey to discover transiting exoplanets ranging from Earth - sized to gas giants, in orbit around the nearest and brightest stars in the sky.

The project, led by principal investigator George Ricker, a senior research scientist at MKI, will use an array of wide - field cameras to perform an all - sky survey to discover transiting exoplanets, ranging from Earth - sized planets to gas giants, in orbit around the brightest stars in the sun's neighborhood.

On June 16, 2008, a team of astronomers announced at the 2008 Extra Solar Super-Earths Workshop in France their discovery of one «super-Earth» type planet in a tight orbit around this star with two other gas giant planets in outer orbits (ESO press release and Bouchy et al, 2009).

The project, led by principal investigator George Ricker, a senior research scientist at the MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research (MKI) will use an array of wide - field cameras to perform an all - sky survey to discover transiting exoplanets, ranging from Earth - sized planets to gas giants, in orbit around the brightest stars in the sun's neighborhood.

Because it's in an eccentric (i.e. non-circular) orbit around its gas giant host, scientists think gravitational forces are causing Enceladus to twist and contort — and that those contortions are generating heat in the moon's rocky core.

This is the largest - ever planet found in orbit around a binary star system, and like our own solar system neighbor, is a gas giant that probably has moons.

Outnumbered, outgunned, and with their crippled vessel in a decaying orbit around a gas giant, the Titanic's crew must choose between saving themselves... or saving Humanity.